Korean War Armistice Day ceremony on Sunday at Portage Veterans Memorial

PORTAGE, MI – “The Forgotten War” will be remembered when Korean War Armistice Day is observed at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 27, at the Veterans Memorial in Portage.

Korean War Armistice Day will be observed Sunday at the Veterans Memorial in Portage.Tom Haroldson/Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette

Portage and Kalamazoo veterans and their families are invited to what will be a short ceremony, said Bob Hill, of Portage, a Korean War veteran and active veterans’ service group member who was instrumental in getting the Veterans Memorial established in Portage years ago.

The speaker will be Herbert W. Kenz, a retired U.S. Army chief warrant officer 4. As always, food will be provided by Koreans after the ceremony, which is free and open to everyone.

The event is sponsored by American Legion Post 207, VFW Post 5855 and area veterans.

The Korean War began June 25, 1950 and ended on July 27, 1953 with an Armistice agreement. National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day has been celebrated each July in community memorial services and with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

In the Korean War, 36,573 American troops were killed and 103,284 others wounded.